Cadmium Sulphuratum

Abdomen

Abdomen.--Sore, tender, tympanitic. Region of liver sore. Coldness. Black, offensive clots of blood from bowels. Pain in abdomen, with vomiting. Tenderness and tympanites.

Description

Its pathogenesis gives symptoms corresponding to very low forms of disease, as in cholera, yellow fever, where, with exhaustion, vomiting, and extreme prostration, the disease runs deathward. Important gastric symptoms. Carcinoma ventriculi; persistent vomiting. The attack is upon the stomach more especially. Patients must keep quiet. Chilliness and coldness even when near the fire.

Dose

Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency.

Eyes

Eyes.--Opacity of cornea. Blue circle around eyes. One pupil dilated. Night blindness.

Face

Face.--Distortion of mouth. Trembling of jaw. Facial paralysis; more left side.

Fever

Fever.--Icy coldness (Camph; Verat; Heloderm). Yellow fever (Crotalus; Carbo).

Heart

Heart.--Palpitation, with constriction of chest.

Mind and Head

Mind and Head.--Unconscious. Vertigo; room and bed seem to spin around. Hammering in head. Heat in head.

Modalities

Modalities.--Worse, walking or carrying burdens; after sleep; from open air, stimulants. Better, eating and rest.

Mouth

Mouth.--Difficult swallowing. esophagus constricted (Bapt). Salty belching. Intense nausea, with pain and cold. Stringy, offensive exudation on mucous membrane. Salty taste.

Nose

Nose.--Ozena. Tightness at root. Nose obstructed; polypus. Caries of nasal bones. Boils on nose. Nostrils ulcerated.

Relationship

Relationship.--Compare: Cadmium oxide; Cad brom (pain and burning in stomach, and vomiting); Cadmium jodat (Itching of anus and rectum felt during the day only; constipation frequent desire, tenesmus, abdomen bloated); Zinc; Ars; Carbo; Verat.

Skin

Skin.--Blue, yellow, sallow, scaly, cracking. Itching; better scratching. Chloasma, yellowish stains on nose and cheeks; worse exposure to sun and wind. Chilblains.

Sleep

Sleep.--Stops breathing on going to sleep. Wakes up suffocating. Fears to go to sleep again. Protracted sleeplessness.

Stomach

Stomach.--Soreness in pit of stomach on pressure. Violent nausea; retching. Black vomit. Vomiting of mucus, green slime, blood, with great prostration, and great tenderness over the stomach. Burning and cutting pains in stomach. Carcinoma, helps the persistent vomiting. Coffee ground vomiting.

Stool

Stool.--Bloody, black, and offensive. Gelatinous, yellowish green; semi-fluid, with urinary suppression.

Throat

Throat.--Sore throat, constant tickling; gagging and nausea, worse deep breathing; chilliness and aching.

Urine

Urine.--Rawness and soreness in urethra, urine mixed with pus and blood.